Like-cheese-at-fourpence Definition
adjective
(idiomatic) Of a person, to be waiting idly or timewasting.
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Origin of Like-cheese-at-fourpence
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From the mill towns of Lancashire, where fourpence was considered expensive for cheese and hence cheese for sale at that price would not be bought.
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